Re:Making good programmers feel like bad programmers
by Zak on Monday July 27, 2009 @05:34AM
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It's the difference between optimizing for lines of code written vs. lines of code maintained.
It seems odd to me to read that. From what I've seen of it, Java seems to be hard to maintain. The capacity for abstraction is limited, leading to repeated or generated code in multiple locations. To make matters worse, hooking in to things requires that they be designed to be hooked in to. Contrast Common Lisp method combination.
It seems odd to me to read that. From what I've seen of it, Java seems to be hard to maintain. The capacity for abstraction is limited, leading to repeated or generated code in multiple locations. To make matters worse, hooking in to things requires that they be designed to be hooked in to. Contrast Common Lisp method combination.